Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael J. Housman '02, JCP co-chair, and HRRC member-at-large, said the name was a casual reference that was not directed at any group...
...BUSINESS CASUAL...
...potential targets for mergers to negotiations to finessing the final deals. It's definitely a niche market, where experience in the computer world is more important than test scores or grades. Shemmer never intended to find a job in the technology sector but was impressed by the company's casual style...
...somehow that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that Levinson packs his movie with more melodrama--including Little Melvin's kidnapping of Ben and Sylvia from an early rock concert--than you would think it could hold. What's important is the casual, even digressive, movement of the piece. It plays like a memoir, not a conventional three-act movie. There's room here for Ben to shock his family by dressing as Hitler for Halloween, for a faux-naive stripper to electrify Nate's theater, for the strange power of a new-model Cadillac to cloud the mind...
...sense, the freshness of Thoreau's long-undeciphered writings should surprise no one. He, along with Mark Twain, essentially invented the plain but supple American prose style, carefully composed to sound casual. So, to stress the point that "high blueberries" must be looked for in swamps, Thoreau writes, "When I see their dense curving tops ahead, I expect a wet foot." He dresses his adages in homespun: "All kinds of harvestry, even pulling turnips when the first cold weather numbs your fingers, are interesting if you have been the sower and have not sowed too many...